Tis the season to eat, drink and be merry. Unfortunately, not everyone can be so merry when times are as tough as they have been. But that’s no reason to just eat… or drink… Best of the Web is helping do it’s part in spreading cheer to all webmasters, site owners, marketing […]

Looking for something on the web yields similar problems. You need to search the term that’s actually present, and it doesn’t hurt to have it spelled the same way. Unfortunately, if you’re in the UK you are sometimes hampered by evidence the colonials elsewhere can neither spell nor call things by their correct name.

As anybody who follows this blog (or BOTW) knows, we like to run promotions from time to time. It’s a great way to reward our current members and introduce new people to the BOTW web directory. We’ve been doing them awhile now, and each one proves more successful than the last.
It is our […]

Now that we are only a couple of weeks away from Boston PubCon, the time seems right for an update.
We are exhibiting again, and as exhibitors have a few discounts to hand out to attendees. For the 10% off discount, use the promotional code: bw-25010. There are plenty to go around of the […]

After the success we had at PubCon Vegas, we have decided to exhibit at PubCon Boston, April 18-20. In addition to the exposure that we will receive by exhibiting at the booth, it will provide us the opportunity to get together with the BOTW Boston team. With offices scattered throughout the US, it […]

Many webmasters and internet marketing professionals scoff at the Alexa ranking system. “Too easy to manipulate”, they say. “Not truly representative of traffic”, others note. And while I agree with them, I take a different stance when it comes to Alexa’s usefulness.
I find Alexa to be a pretty good resource, especially when […]

In one month, Jupiter Events and SearchEngineWatch host SES 2006 in New York City. As mentioned earlier, this will be our first time as an exhibitor at Search Engine Strategies.We are looking forward to seeing friends, and making plenty of new contacts.
As an exhibitor, we are able to provide […]

I got my new Apple PowerBook G4 in early September. One of the first things I did was to spend some time learning about iCal, Apple’s calendar application. In an effort to work on my organizational skills, I spent some time adding in important dates and prioritizing my to-do list. One of […]

A couple of weeks ago, Brian received an early afternoon email informing him of a pretty intriguing advertising offer. We were told that industry pundit, and Yahoo insider, Jeremy Zawodny would soon be accepting advertising - text link ads, to boot. Naturally, we were excited - the demographic of Jeremy’s readership is a […]

Last week Brian, Greg and Jared spent the week in Las Vegas, exhibiting at PubCon 10. The conference marked our first appearance as an exhibitor, and we were excited to be there. We happily report that the time spent away from the office was well worth it.
It was nice to see industry friends, […]